Hearing for Adnan Syed of NPR's Serial & Other News (Nov. 9, 2015)

The legal news over the weekend included the appeal of Adnan Syed of Baltimore, MD. Syed was the subject of NPR’s successful series called here. A recent article by the Baltimore Sun discusses what Syed’s attorney Justin Brown claims about the cell tower testimony which, when I listened to Serial, I considered among the most damaging evidence against Syed. That evidence may not be so strong after all, according to what has been reported in the Sun: “Brown [ ] put forward for the first time a fax cover sheet from AT&T in which the phone company raised questions about the reliability of technology at the time to pinpoint the location of a phone. “Brown obtained an affidavit from the state’s expert witness regarding phone technology, who said he would have wanted to know about the disclaimer on the fax…